Godina izdanja: 1999
ISBN: 978-0451-52698-4
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Immigrant Voices: Twenty-Four Narratives on Becoming an American Mass Market Paperback – March 1, 1999 by Gordon Hutner (Editor)

Publisher: ‎ Signet
Publication date: ‎ March 1, 1999
Edition: ‎ Reprint
Language: ‎ English
Print length: ‎ 400 pages
Item Weight: ‎ 6.7 ounces
Dimensions: ‎ 4.18 x 1.01 x 6.76 inches

With narratives from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, this anthology provides a historical and uniquely personal perspective on the immigrant experience and illuminates the often difficult dream of becoming an American citizen.
From Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur’s defining statement of Americanism to Harlem Renaissance figure Claude McKay’s observations on race, here are both rousing and heartbreaking impressions of those who departed from their homlands in the hopes of making a new life. Reconciling their old traditions with their new land, these immigrants faced such adversity as assimilation, prejudice, poverty, homesickness, and identity.
Filled with inspiring stories of immigrants who traveled from Mexico, India, China, Korea, Syria, and beyond, Immigrant Voices reveals – in their own words – how these newcomers were able to persevere and make their mark on the “New World.”

Ova antologija okuplja dvadeset četiri autobiografska i memoarska svedočanstva koja iznutra prikazuju iskustvo doseljavanja u Sjedinjene Države i dug, često protivrečan proces „postajanja Amerikancem“. Tekstovi, nastajali od 18. do 20. veka, vode čitaoca kroz različite talase imigracije i raznolike životne putanje: od prvih susreta sa „novim svetom“ i obećanjima slobode, preko rada, siromaštva i školovanja, do jezičke i kulturne adaptacije, porodičnih tenzija i preispitivanja identiteta. Umesto opštih istorijskih pregleda, knjiga nudi istoriju „odozdo“ – niz konkretnijih, ličnih prizora u kojima se stalno sudaraju očekivanja i stvarnost, sećanje na domovinu i potreba da se uhvati koren u novoj zemlji. Zajednička nit ovih narativa jeste pitanje pripadnosti: kako se menja sopstveno „ja“ pod pritiskom asimilacije, predrasuda, klasnih barijera ili rasizma, i šta sve ulazi u cenu jednog novog državljanstva, jezika i života.

Sadržaj:
Introduction
Letters from an American Farmer – Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur
Inquiries of an Emigrant – Joseph Pickering
A True Picture of Emigration – Rebecca Burlend
Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie – Andrew Carnegie
Frontier Mother – Gro Svendsen
The Nun of Kenmare – Margaret Anna Cusack
A Woman’s Quest – Marie Zakrzewska
Story of a Pioneer – Anna Howard Shaw
Memoirs of Henry Villard – Henry Villard
The Making of an American – Jacob Riis
The Promised Land – Mary Antin
From Alien to Citizen – Edward Steiner
A Far Journey – Abraham Rihbany
The Americanization of Edward Bok – Edward Bok
Up Stream – Ludwig Lewisohn
Caste and Outcast – Dhan Ghopal Mukerji
A Daughter of the Samurai – Etsu Sugimoto
From Immigrant to Inventor – Michael Pupin
The Soul of an Immigrant – Constantine Panunzio
A Long Way From Home – Claude McKay
Chinaman’s Chance – No-Yong Park
America Is in the Heart – Carlos Bulosan
Barrio Boy – Ernesto Galarza
Quiet Odyssey – Mary Paik Lee

Ključne reči: imigracija, autobiografija, memoari, identitet, asimilacija, američki san, pripadnost, kulturni šok, jezik, rasizam, klasne barijere, istorija SAD, etničke zajednice, rad, siromaštvo, obrazovanje.

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